President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard falsely claimed that former President Obama and and former senior US national security officials are guilty of “treasonous conspiracy,” notes The Guardian. This sudden lie came out while the Trump admin refused to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Trump is mentioned in.
Gabbard — who has a history of lying –falsely claimed that Obama and senior officials in his administration “[laid] the groundwork for … a years-long coup” against Trump after his victory over Hillary Clinton by “manufacturing intelligence” to suggest that Russia had tried to influence the election.
Gabbard said the Obama administration leaked blatantly false intelligence to The Washington Post AFTER the election on December 9, 2016 and January 6, 2017, claiming that Russia used “cyber means” to influence “the outcome of the election.
It’s important to note that Trump was not sworn in until Jan. 20, 2017, and could not be a victim of a coup while not holding office.
It was widely reported and verified that Russian propaganda groups bought ads on Facebook to influence the 2016 election, noted The Washington Post, PBS, TIME, and ABC News.
NPR reported that Trump himself confirmed twice that his son Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer to get dirt of Trump’s opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Gabbard cited British intelligence analyst Christopher Steele’s report, which was actually paid for by Fusion GPS and Clinton’s campaign, not President Obama and his senior officials.
Gabbard, lacking any actual evidence, said she was passing her claims to the US Department of Justice in hopes US Attorney General Pam Bondi — who refused to release the Jeffrey Epstein files — will prosecute Obama’s former Director of National Intelligence Jame Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
(Sources: The Guardian, PBS, TIME, ABC News, The Washington Post, NPR, FactCheck.org)